Heath Old Hall, from the South East

Slide 2: Witham’s son dying without issue, the property came to his sister Mary, better known as the munificent Lady Bolles. She was a wealthy ladyand was created a baroness in her own right. Lady Bolles dies at the Old Hall in May1662 but was buried at Ledston. There are singular uncanny legends of this lady at Old Hall, which she is said to have haunted, until such timeas she was cnjured into a certain deep place in the river Calder, called henceforth “Lady Bolle’s Pit”. Thus it appears the country folk “laid “ the ghost by drowning it! The Hall and estate then descended to Sir William Jopson, and after his death passed to the Dalstons, who held the property for three generations. It afterwards passed to the Fanquire’s one of whom sold the Hall and lands to John Smythe of Heath, to whose descendants it still belongs.